Not rituals in a spiritual or religious sense, but as a way to story tell, express identity and experiences, and reaffirm our subculture by bringing people together. I love Gen however! That blows my brain.”. I know some people like to conflate gender with sex, but frankly referring to me as a he based on my assumed genitalia seems personal and gross. (VICE online 25/04/17) This is one of the most brutal experiences one can imagine in the field of tattooing, where wills are either broken or solidified. In this first installment of the Interview with an Editor series, head honcho of Skin Deep, Sion Smith, offers advice for writers, photographers, and tattooists looking get published, while discussing life at the helm of the UK's best selling tattoo magazine. The title is a lyric from the song Flesh by The Invincible Limit. However, the Russian tattoo exhibitionist recently went through an even bigger transformation—this time going under the knife to become what Archaniol refers to as "nullo.". I think artists play a critical role in breaking down boarders and binaries, and at a time when so much of the world attempts to return to an idealised world that never existed, I want to work towards creating a new future. I like the sound of transgressor, and it is transgressors I like to keep company with. However, body mods often take their individuality to an entirely different level—investing in extreme surgeries that make them "beyond human." I spend a day in Malawi’s biggest refugee camp, Dzaleka, where by chance I meet the camp’s tattooist. I take a look at two moments in tattoo history that help to shed light on this question: the artification and commodification of tattoo. Despite being asexual, he still has a normal sex drive and is in a relationship with a transgender woman named Veronica Carol Blades. (First Published in Skin Deep UK) Why do the media insist on repeatedly asking if tattoos have become uncool or too mainstream? Gabriel Archaniol, better known as Adam Curly Kale, is a 32-year-old body modification enthusiast from Kaliningrad, Russia. They truly created their own universe, and there’s many sides of both their work and their life that inspires and pushes boundaries. To go beyond these simple but fundamental sex binaries pushes us into transhuman territory. Photojournalist Luke Daniels used his friendship with one high-ranking insider to photograph members and their tattoos. Complimenting the two photography exhibits are four installations – curated by Stanislava Pinchuk – that offer a view of tattoo beyond the limitations of tradition. It’s the DIY mentality and perhaps a bit of stubbornness in that I’m going to do things my way. Blades is also a body modification enthusiast, who has had several ribs removed, her eyeballs tattooed and is planning for many more surgeries in the near future. “To a lot of people my very existence is a provocation”—meet Parma Ham: artist, agitator, and curator of London’s Wraith night, Entangled and disembodied: a neuroqueer exploration of posthumanism and tattoo, (NSFW / TW) “Today, I will suffer for your art”: meet the nihilist going beyond the intersection of kink and body modification to produce traumatic works of art, The Huxleys Are Performance Art’s Answer to John Waters, The Story of a Radical Feminist Exotic Dancer who Became a Heavily Tattooed Androgynous Tattoo Artist, First published in Archer Magazine 12/10/19, Our Bodies, Our Voices, Our Marks thoughtfully captures the endurance of tattoo and tradition, Abridged version published in The Conversation 03/07/2019, Tools for torture: meet the dominatrix using tattoo and body modification experts as instruments for pain, On why I think the media should stop asking if tattoos have become too mainstream or uncool, Serious technique paired with childlike wonderment: inside the pencil case of Miriam Frank, First published in Forever More: The New Tattoo, Stories of the human condition told through the dilated pupils of Expanded Eye, Rebels With a Cause: The Indomitable Activism of Indomito, The violent ingenuity of Kelly Violet: A testament to finding what you love and letting it kill you, Portraits of South Africa's Bloodiest Prison Gang: The Number, Radical Physiognomies: Meet two tattooists taking their face tattoos to the next level, From transgressive folk-art to one of MoMA’s most influential “items” of fashion shaping the 20th and 21st centuries, Brutal Black Project Participant Interviews: "My face was double its size, I had black eyes like I was beaten", Inkspector: The Forensic Analysis of Tattoos and Ink, Hannah Pixie Snow and Guy Le Tatooer launch their new grass roots charity project, Love Shakthi Om, Introducing the Brutal Black Project: “No Compassion. The artist Orlan had alien facial implants in the 1980s and her whole practice preludes the alien aesthetics of today. Their most recent work, Skin: Neuroqueer Entanglement, explores the complex world of autistic embodiment and the unique effects of tattoo on neuroqueer skin. Are you stunned by his extreme transformation? The New Zealand based artist talks about her psychedelic erotic art, tattoos, and what an orgasm can do for the mind. Artwork by Hila Angelica. (First published in Forever More: The New Tattoo) Upon starting, they work independently, a technique reminiscent of surrealist André Breton’s ‘exquisite corpse’, where artists collaborate while completely in the dark of their partner’s progress. Let us know your thoughts, opinions and questions in the comments section on Facebook. (Published in INKED issue 42) “That was Ricky’s right above Pinky’s. Take a look at the gallery below to meet a body mod whose gained attention in the media before for his radical appearance but has recently taken his transformation to the extreme. As humans we are experts at altering our environments to suit our needs and desires, so it’s only fitting that the body is a blank slate open to customisation. I think the desire behind alien aesthetics shares ground with the general body mod community. Henry Findlay was tattooed on his chest, arms, hands, fingers, calves and from his knees to his groin 'after the Burmese manner’. (INKED magazine, issue 39) On February 26th, I presented an exhibition of tattooed silicone hands and sheets at Melbourne's Neon Parlour. In October 2019 she released with Parma Ham the design project Nullo, by creating objects, clothes and accessories for transhuman tribes that have been steadily released through runway presentations, performances and actions. Upcoming Wraith Event. This underpins my event Wraith, which is a platform for myself, my friends and the alt scene in London. It rips apart from emotions. That’s because Pinky’s had a hepatitis scare and the American navy had banned them from going there, so he just opened upstairs and called it Ricky’s. I used to pride myself on my short and long term memory but now I literally can't remember anything about the film I avidly watched last night, but, I can tell you James' appointment in January 2019 needs extending because he wants to add a tiny dismembered leprechaun to his right arm, just below the elbow… That's fucked up.' Or has it already been done, but better?”, if the answer is yes, I disregard and move on. Parma Ham is a London based artist challenging normative notions of gender and the body. We make and produce work for ourselves and for our immediate subculture / community. As curator and creator of the infamous nightclub event, Wraith, Ham regularly brings together a collective of equally provocative and vocal artists. COTNF is principally a music project that was developed simultaneously with Wraith, the project incorporates large performative elements. Discover a rich history of colonial stick & poke tattoos and wild convict stories with Simon Barnard, author of the new book Convict Tattoos: Marked Men and Women of Australia. For us, this is largely based in art.". Sure, it’s rewarding to have work in galleries, museums, and magazines and hit that mainstream audience, but I get more pleasure, conversation, inspiration and engagement when working with and for friends in our own context. It seems pretty straightforward to me that billionaires, politicians corrupt by money and the hate speech that enforces these status quo’s is the real evil, and it seems a lot of people don’t have the sense to tell apart what is actually a threat to society, and what offends their sensibilities that mean nothing in comparison. (Abridged version first Published in The Guardian, 23/11/16), Hong Kong Branding: The Past, The Present, The Future. I combine that with my vision of night life where I want to incorporate all the creative disciplines - fashion, music, art, performance under the guise of a transgressive and hedonistic nightclub; and create a hub for collaboration and bringing worlds together. You can feel sick, faint, or you can feel happy and blissful. I’m happy to go by them/they to make things easy for others, but just referring to me as Parma Ham is preferable. They then come together, consult over the fragmented parts, and proceed to evolve the concept and aesthetic of the final fluid mosaic. We reference historical rituals like the crucifixion and that’s where visually we might share visceral similarities to Nitsch; but the context of queer kids doing it in a London nightclub in 2020 while making industrial techno goth has a whole host of different references compared to an old Austrian man doing it in a field in the 1970s, so yes quite different! All profits from the sale of these works went to SafeSteps and WIRE, two Melbourne based organisations dedicated to providing support to women and children experiencing domestic violence. It was two shops but it was the same. Purchase discounted copies of Forever More here. (Abridged version first Published in The Guardian, 23/11/16) Lying in a satin-lined coffin or wearing a bondage hood may help you face up to your inevitable demise. While there is plenty of crossover between the two subcultures, it's important to recognize the distinctive differences between tattoo enthusiasts and body mods. (First published in VICE 06/07/17) Respectively raised in the suburbs of the Gold Coast and Perth, the couple longed for something with more danger and glamour, so, naturally, after meeting one another they combined their hearts and skills to saturate the world with their idiosyncratic aesthetic of "demented sparkling" performance art. (Published in Skin Deep UK) Love Shakthi Om, to be launched in the first week of May, will produce limited works of art to be sold with profits donated to charity. I don’t really think of anyone else when I’m creating. But, that doesn't mean that the newly nullo body mod won't end up on Reddit and we can truly see how his former package healed. We like the drama, and the power that goes into it, and the emotion that comes out of it. In their design project, Nullo (a term describing an individual that voluntarily removes their genitals), Ham and Salvia manufacture a haunting alien aesthetic that encourages nebulous boundaries between physical and digital realities to create and accommodate an updated augmented sexuality. Alongside their own band Cult of the New Flesh, resident performers Salvia and WenZhelini offer revellers an evening of bloodletting, sadism, ritual, sex acts, and lurid hedonism. The Forensic Analysis of Tattoos and Ink is a pioneering work detailing the methodology of this process. parma.ham [ANNOUNCEMENT] I’m super excited to show everyone Nullo ( @nulloes ) which I have been working on with @salvjiia . Imbued is a critique of binaries and exploration of sexuality that transgress the limits of the body to build new ways of experiencing it. Ham came to the attention of the world back in 2014 for their extreme hair style and has since been a mouthpiece for goth culture, gender non-conformity, and sexuality. I don’t think you can limit humans and their experience to black or white, we are all a lot more complex than that. 6,350 Likes, 62 Comments - Parma Ham (@parma.ham) on Instagram: “nullo” (Abridged version published in The Conversation 03/07/2019) The Immigration Museum’s new exhibit, Our Bodies, Our Voices, Our Marks, explores the contemporary form of Polynesia’s ancient and embedded tatau alongside the equally potent tattoo tradition of Japanese irezumi.

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